From the Dick Buchanan Files: Gag Cartoons 1944 - 1963

Dick Buchanan celebrates the coming of summer with (What else?) a visit to his world renowned cartoon clip file. So, take off your shoes, run through the green grass and enjoy some twenty hand-picked specially curated, artisanal single panel gag cartoons. Thank you, Mr. Buchanan, for sharing these!

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GAG CARTOONS
(1944 – 1963)

Summer is here and soon many tourists will flock to the Old Joke Cemetery, just around the corner from Dick Buchanan’s Cartoon Clip File located somewhere in New York’s scenic Greenwich Village. As always, the Gag Cartoon section is of interest to many. The FAQ plaque, scrawled in crayon on a piece of cardboard next to the Joke Delivery System display, explains that the gag cartoons, as well as the single joke cartoons from abroad, were manually clipped from the pages of the great national magazines of the mid-20th century and stored for posterity. Now that posterity has finally arrived, they have been dragged into the modern world for one last time. Some of these cartoons are still (kinda) funny while others are greeted with bewilderment and alarm. We consider them to be bemusing. Nonetheless, they are prime examples of the work of some the best cartoonists of the 20th century. Take a look . . .


1. BOB BARNES. American Legion Magazine July, 1959.

 

2. CHON DAY. True Magazine September, 1952.

 

3. BOSC. Punch November 3, 1958.

 

4. STANLEY RAYON. Boys Life November, 1950.

 

5. GREGORY d’ALESSIO. American Magazine October, 1944.

 

6. HANK KETCHAM. The Saturday Evening Post July, 1950.

 

7. GARDNER REA. Look Magazine April 11, 1958.

 

8. JOHN GALLAGHER Here! March, 1952

 

9. ALEX GRAHAM. Punch July 2, 1958.

 

10. L.H. SIGGS. Punch August 27, 1958.

 

11. GEORGE RECKAS. Cartoon Humor November, 1949.

 "He has your eyes, dear."

 

12. GEORGE SPROD. Punch November 11, 1953.

 

13. NATE COLLIER. Boys Life August, 1950.

 

14. LLOYD BAKER. The Saturday Evening Post July 25, 1958.

 

15. VAHAN SHIRVANIAN. Look Magazine November 7, 1961.

 

16. AL KAUFMAN. 1000 Jokes Magazine May, 1955.

 

17. JEFF KEATE. This Week Magazine May 15, 1949.

 

18. BOB WEBER. American Legion Magazine April, 1962.

 

19. GEORGE WOLFE. Liberty Magazine June 24, 1944.

 

20. PHIL INTERLANDI. Look Magazine January 15, 1963.